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Archive for the ‘Roads’ Category

Washington State: Corridor Capacity Report

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
Understanding maximum throughput: An adaptation of the speed/volume curve

WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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North Carolina DOT: Making an Old Road New

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

There are several steps involved in the removal and replacement of the highway surface and sub-structure.

Shifting traffic — Crews establish a work zone and work with paint and barrier wall crews.
Demolishing the road — There are several parts involved in this process and they include milling, or removing the asphalt, breaking the concrete, moving the material out of the way and then crushing it.
Pipe installation — This involves digging up and removing old pipe and installing new pipe.

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Oregon DOT: Bolting Rocks

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

A 150-ton rock is bolted to the face of a cliff to keep the rock from falling to the roadway on Highway 58, eighteen miles east of Oakridge, OR.

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Hammond, LA: New Roundabout Drone Footage

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

Sometimes you can only appreciate good infrastructure from an aerial vantage point. Here, the Louisiana Department of Transportation sends a drone into the air above the town of Hammond to capture pixel-perfect views of a series of roundabouts–some already in use–along Club Deluxe Road.

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Colorado DOT: Implementing New Ideas

Monday, September 28th, 2015

Video introducing the process for implementing new ideas into CDOT.

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Utah DOT: The Importance of Quality Management

Monday, September 21st, 2015

Like sewage treatment, Quality Management isn’t exactly the most scintillating subject on the planet. But it matters greatly in all the work we do at UDOT. Why? We thought you’d never ask!

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U.S. DOT: Using GPS For Transportation Research

Friday, September 18th, 2015

These days GPS makes a transportation planner’s research effort much easier. Until now access to the data created wasn’t so easy. Watch the video to see how FHWA’s Office of Planning, Environment and Realty’s Research Program teamed with U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to access secure travel data on the web.

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Oregon DOT: Update on the Bly Mountain Project

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

ODOT has made enough progress on the east side of this project to open it to traffic. The contractor is getting ready to shut down for winter and pick up in 2016 for the final work.

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The 2015 U.S. Transportation Construction Industry Profile

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
Total Government Fixed Assets, in billions

AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (ARTBA)
This report examines how investments in the United States’ transportation infrastructure stimulate business activity and government revenues throughout the nation…The results spotlight the unique and synergistic nature of transportation capital investments—how they trigger immediate economic activity that creates and sustains jobs and tax revenues, yet yield long-lived capital assets that facilitate economic activity for many decades to come by providing access to jobs, services, materials and markets.

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Nevada DOT: Managing Stormwater in the Clear Creek Watershed

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

The roadway between Carson City and Lake Tahoe was constructed in 1957 in preparation for the 1960 U.S. Olympics in Squaw Valley. Part of the Clear Creek Watershed, erosion has become a serious problem over the years, prompting NDOT to make some significant erosion control and stormwater improvements. James Murphy of NDOT’s Stormwater Management Program explains the benefits of the much needed project.

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